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Front cover of an 1889 American
edition of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Anthony Trollope (1815; died December 6, 1882) English novelist; the six novels of the
Chronicles of Barsetshire; many more
Robert Penn Warren (1905; died September 15, 1989) American novelist and poet known for
All the King's Men (Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, 1946; also, Best Picture Oscar, 1949); Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry (1958, 1979); Poet Laureate of the US (1944-1945)
Died on this day:
Daniel Defoe (1731; born September 13, 1660) English writer;
Robinson Crusoe;
A Journal of the Plague Year;
Moll Flanders
L. M. Montgomery (1942; born November 30, 1874) Canadian author of children's literature;
Anne of Green Gables and sequels;
Rilla of Ingleside;
Emily of New Moon and two more; the
Avonlea stories
Willa Cather (1947; born December 7, 1873) American author;
O Pioneers!;
Death Comes for the Archbishop;
The Song of the Lark;
My Ántonia; Pulitzer Prize in Literature (1923)
Bonus Classic:
The Cattle Raid of Cooley (from 12th century on) tells of an attack--styled a "war"--on Ulster by the queen of Connacht and her men, who attempt steal a bull; Ulster's defense depends on the teenaged hero Cú Chulainn. It is the central text of the "Ulster Cycle," one of the four great cycles of Irish mythology.
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